Oct. 10-14: LOTF

This week we discussed our readings about Simon speaking to the Lord of the Flies, Simon's death, and the connection between the sounds and images of the introduction the Lord of the Flies movie to the Lord of the Flies novel.  As Golding introduces the Lord of the Flies, it might surprise the reader  because of the sharp change in Golding's style of writing from realist to more of a fictitious style with a pig's head surrounded by flies being the Lord of the Flies.  Golding might have done this to show Simon himself is turning primitive in his own way as the Lord of the Flies abets to Simon that he should be like the other boys.  The Lord of the Flies seemed to be like a manifestation of the war inside Simon's conscious, emaciated by the Lord of the Flies.  During the Lucifer Effect in a Stanford experiment  college students were put in a mock prison as guards or prisoners.  The prisoners, within a few days had psychological problems.  This correlates with Simon because he is on this island with other boys who are having fail attempts at making a fair civilization and as a result, Simon is having hallucinations trying to decide whether to stay sane, or become primitive like the other boys.  After his encounter with the Lord of the Flies he decides to go up the mountain and goes on even though he is scared.  He sees the beast and wanted to tell the others that everything was all right.  Unfortunately the others were in a trance killing Simon believing him to be the beast in the boys' game.  After this chapter, I believe Golding was trying to convey Simon as a prophet-like figure, being right throughout the story as a trustful figure to the reader.  That Simon was bringing the good news like a prophet to the boys that the beast is not a thing to be afraid of, and yet, be killed in the process as Christ had died.  Golding even includes the phosphorescence dragging his body into the sea.  On Friday, we watched the introduction to the Lord of the Flies movie describing the images and sound Peter Brooks, the producer included and why Brooks included those certain images and sound.  Brooks includes images of war and peaceful times, and even once flashing back and forth between adults on the lawn relaxing to a launch pad of missiles to convey that the adults that were having what it seemed a cheerful time were the reason there were missiles that symbolized the war happenings in the world which led to an evacuation of children.  The foil of the adults on the lawn and the missiles are interconnected.  Brooks used the beat of the drums to show the arc from a neutral moment as the beat of drums are study to an intense moment when the tempo of the drums increase rapidly.  Brooks uses these techniques to convey the opinion to heighten emotion to a visualized and audio extent.  Arcs are found in real life everyday from in our lives to a more broad worldy levels.

The inciting incident was the adults at congress that I predict declared war.  The problems and obstacles included the images of the the boys singing, the adults relaxing, the missiles. The crisis point was the evacuation of the boys in airplanes.  The climax was the plane crash.  The falling action was the beginning of the movie with the boys alive on the island.  

This arc can be used to describe the riots in Vancouver.  The inciting incident was the hockey game of the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins.  The problems and obstacles was during the game when the Canucks were losing.  The Crisis point is when the Vancouver Canucks had lost.  The climax could be associated with the Canadian riot because of the loss of the Canucks to the Bruins.